Episode 1: The economy is killing us and destroying the world (24 min.)"There are two problems with our runaway growth economy," Bill McKibben tells Tom Fox. "One is the obvious ecological one, that it's driving us over a cliff as a planet. The second [is] more subtle." He said that in recent years economists and sociologists have learned that our affluence is not making us as happy as we thought it does. "I think our best shot for solving both of these problems is moving toward much more localized economies," he said. Listen to McKibben's explanation.